On this day
05
March

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Max Jacob

Born: Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922)
Died: Max Jacob (1944)

Born on this day

05MarBorn 1922104th birthday

Pier Paolo Pasolini

A Marxist, a Catholic and openly gay, he made some of the most radical films of the 20th century – and was murdered on a beach near Rome.

Died on this day

05MarDied 194482nd anniversary of death

Max Jacob

Picasso’s first friend in Paris, a pioneer of the prose poem – he died in the Drancy camp, days before deportation to Auschwitz.